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Updated: May 1, 2025
There, gleamed in the twilight the watery face of the oblong fish-pool, with its old-fashioned willows at each corner there, grey and quaint, was the monastic dial and there was the long terrace walk, with discoloured and broken vases, now filled with the orange or the aloe, which, in honour of his master's arrival, the gardener had extracted from the dilapidated green-house.
Palmer Billy's bony fist had left an unmistakable mark on the bridge of his nose, and the closed eyelids were already thickened and discoloured. "You've punished him for the three of us," Peters said. "Punished him? Don't you believe it," Palmer Billy answered. "I've only begun.
Nearer to the coast the water has been seen to be so much discoloured by the falling dust, that a sailing vessel left a track behind her.
Her eyes had lost their hopelessly hopeful shining, and sharply between her teeth she said: "Send for Dr. Wilson, Russell." The Rector kissed her, shutting his eyes, for he was afraid of her face with its lips drawn back, and its discoloured cheeks.
The little green door of his domain was in a garden-wall on which the discoloured stucco made patches, and in the small detached villa behind it everything was old, the furniture, the servants, the books, the prints, the immemorial habits and the new improvements.
Skepsey's discoloured eye, and Captain Dartrey's behaviour behind it, threw her upon Dudley's generosity, as being the shield for an outcast. Girls, who see at a time of need their ideal extinguished in its appearing tarnished, are very much at the disposal of the pressing suitor.
The door which faced them was blotched and discoloured, and a faint light in the fan pane above, it served to show the dust and the grime which covered it. Above in one of the bedroom windows, there was a dull yellow glimmer. The merchant knocked loudly, and, as he turned his dark face towards the light, Douglas Stone could see that it was contracted with anxiety.
He finished with the basement, but as he was pottering about the little garden, picking up the discoloured newspapers with which it was littered, the burnisher's wife returned, together with her sister and the little boy; the little boy eating a slice of bread and butter. They re-entered the house; Vandover heard their voices, now in one room, now in another.
There was something so very ghastly in this circumstance, and it appeared to account, in such a very strange and dismal manner, for his faded dress which, in this new aspect, seemed discoloured by the earth from graves that Mr Tappertit abruptly found he was going another way, and, stopping short, bade him good night with the utmost heartiness.
Oh, Ezra, before she got between us you was kind to me at times. I could stand harsh words from you six days a week, if there was a chance of a kind one on the seventh. But now now what notice do you take of me?" She began to whimper and to wipe her eyes with a little discoloured pocket-handkerchief. "Drop it, woman, drop it!" cried her companion testily. "I want information, not snivelling.
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